Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene

Science, Policy, and Practice

V. Alaric Sample, R. Patrick Bixler, Char Miller, V. Alaric Sample, R. Patrick Bixler, Char Miller

• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781607324591
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Science General
• Index: Biological Sciences

Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene  provides thought-provoking insight into the ongoing environmental crises that climate change is generating and raises critical questions about how public and private land managers in North America will adapt to the climatological disruptions that are already transforming the ecological structures of these forests.

In this pathbreaking anthology, a team of leading environmental researchers probes the central dilemmas that ecologists, forest land managers, state and federal agencies, and grassroots organizations are confronting—and will continue to confront—in the coming century. Each chapter examines strategies that are currently being tested across the country as scientists,  citizen-­scientists, policy makers, academics, and activists work to grasp their options and opportunities for a future that will be shaped by ongoing environmental upheaval.

Successful adaptation to the challenges of climate change requires a transdisciplinary perspective.  Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene  provides a compelling set of arguments and case studies that underscores the need for innovative policies and energetic actions.

Contributors: Craig D. Allen, Mark Anderson, Susan Beecher, R. Travis Belote,   Timothy J. Brown, Anne A. Carlson, Tim Caro, Grace K. Charles, Dave Cleaves, Dena J. Clink, Ayesha Dinshaw, R. Kasten Dumroese, Jonas Epstein, Alexander M. Evans, Todd Gartner, Jessica E. Halofsky, Nels Johnson, Linda A. Joyce, Paige Lewis, Laura Falk McCarthy, Heather McGray, Constance I. Millar, James Mulligan, Chadwick Dearing, David L. Peterson, Will Price, Janine M. Rice, Jason Riggio, Tania Schoennagel, Mark L. Shaffer, Curt Stager, Scott L. Stephens, Thomas W. Swetnam, Gary M. Tabor, Christopher Topik, Monica G. Turner, Thomas T. Veblen, Alexandra M. Weill, Anthony L. Westerling, Carolyn Whitesell, Mary I. Williams

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Forest Conservation and Management in the Anthropocene
• Section I: Changing Climatic Regimes and Forest Ecosystems
• Section II: Assessing Vulnerability and Threats to Current Management Regimes
• Section III: Adaptation Strategies for Biodiversity Conservation and Water Protection
• Section IV: Transdisciplinarity in the Anthropocene
• Section V: Evolving Institutional and Policy Frameworks
• Works Cited
• List of Contributors
• Index